Folding mirror-frame.



A. MILLER. FOLDING MIRROR FRAME. APPLICATION FILED JANQ'M, 1914.

Patented 0011.6, 1914,

iiml'fiehce 62 Miller WWW UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

LAWRENCE A. MILLER, OF CARROLL, IOWA.

FOLDING MIRROR-FRAME.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, Lawnnn on A. MILLER. acitizen of the United States, residing at Carroll, in the county ofCarroll and State of lowa, have invented new and useful Improvements inFolding Mirror-Frames, of which the following is a specification.

The inventionprovides a mirror embodying a sectional frame which admitsof the mirror being supported in a variety of positions or held in thehand in the manner of the usual hand mirror, the sectional frame beingconstructed and connected in a manner to admit of the parts folding uponone another and upon the mirror so as to occupy the smallest amount ofspace possible to admit of placing it in a hand satchel or othercontainer without occupying valuable space.

The invention consists of two frames having pivotal connection suchframes being provided with means for positively holding them at therequired adjusted position, and one of such frames having pivotalconnection with the mirror to admit of the latter turning to any angularposition and being retained in position against accidental movement.

The invention further consists of the novel features, details ofconstruction and combination of parts which hereinafter will be moreparticularly set forth illustrated and claimed.

In the drawings hereto attached :-Figure 1 is a perspective view of amirror embodying the invention as seen from the rear, the frames beingextended and the mirror occupying a position in a plane parallel withthe plane of the alined frames, the arrangement being such as to admitof the mirror being suspended from the wall or held in the hand. Fig. 2is a side view of the mirrOr showing the parts arranged for sustainingthe mirror upon a table or like supporting surface. Fig. 3 is a detailview of one of the mirror clips. Fig. l is a detail view of thesupporting frame.

Corresponding and like parts are referred to in the followingdescription, and inclicated in all the views of the drawing, by the samereference characters.

The numeral 1 designates a mirror or like part which may be of anyoutline and construction. The supporting means for the mirror comprisestwo frames 2 and 3 Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed January 14, 1914.

Patented Oct. 6, 1914.

Serial No. 812,063.

which are pivotally connected to each other and to the mirror. The frame2 designated as the supporting frame to distinguish from the frame 3,which is designated as the mirror frame, is preferably constructed ofWire of suitable gage to provide a substantial part and spring members.The supporting frame consists of a loop 4, offset 5, segments t3, andreentrant arms 7, which terminate in eyes 8 to receive an end member ofthe mirror frame 3 whereby the two frames are pivotally connected. Thesegments 6 are approximately of semicircular form and or like devicedriven into the wall, parti-' tion or analogous support. The sidemembers of the supporting frame are adapted to yield and possess acertain amount of spring action which serves to hold the crimps of thesegment 6 in positive engagement with the side members of the mirrorframe 3.

The mirror frame 3 is constructed of a single length of spring wire ofsuitable gage and is preferably of triangular form, the side membershaving their end portions bent outwardly to form journals 10 whichterminate in eyes to engage ears 12 projecting rearwardly from themirror 1. The end member of the frame 3 remote from the journals 10 issupported in the eyes 8 of the supporting frame 2. The side members ofthe frame 3 are adapted to engage the crimps 9 of the supporting frameand thereby hold the mirror frame in the required adjusted position. Asindicated in Fig. 1 the two frames 2 and 3 may be extended so as toaline, thereby admitting of the mirror being held in the hand in theusual Way or suspended by means of the loop 4 from a nail or likedevice. As indicated in Fig. 2 the frame 3 may be turned to occupy anydesired angular position with reference to the frame 2 and the lattermay be placed upon a table or other article of furniture or likesupporting surface. Two clips 13 are fitted to opposite sides of themirror and each is formed with an ear 12. The clips have loops 14 attheir outer ends to engage the edges of the mirror. The ears 12 arepartly cut from the blanks forming the clips and are pressed outwardly.The clips may be readily fitted to or disconnected from the mirror andwhen in position are drawn in ward by the spring action of the sidemembers comprising the mirror frame. The eyes 11 engage the ears 12frictionally in such a manner as to hold the mirror in the requiredangular position. The frictional contact between the eyes 11 and ears 12is supplemented by the frictional engagement of the journals 10 with theclips, with the result that the mirror is retained in any adjustedangular position.

It will be understood from the foregoing taken in connection with theaccompanying drawing that the invention provides a mirror which may beheld in the hand, suspended upon the wall or placed upon a table orother supporting surface and which in any position may be adjusted toany angle that may be required. It is also noted that the device is ofsuch formation as to admit of the parts folding readily into a flat andcompact form for storing when the article is not required for immediateuse.

From the foregoing description, taken in connection with theaccompanying drawing, the advantages of the construction and of themethod of operation will be readily apparent to those skilled in the artto which the invention appertains, and while I have described theprinciple of operation of the invention together with the device which Inow consider to be the best embodiment thereof, I desire to have itunderstood that the device shown is merely illustrative, and that suchchangesmay be made when desired as are within the scope of the inventionas claimed.

Having thus described the invention is claimed as new is 1. Supportingmeans for a mirror or like part, the same comprising two frames, one ofsuch frames embodying spring side members, each of such members having acrimped segment, a reentrant arm and an eye at the extremity of such armand the other frame being pivotally supported in the eyes of the firstmentioned frame and extending along the inner sides of the crimpedmembers and engaging the crimps thereof to hold the two frames in theadjusted position.

2. In supporting means for a mirror or analogous part, a frame formed ofa single wire and comprising a loop, offsets, crimped segments andreentrant arms terminating in eyes concentric with the segments, saidreentrant arms converging toward the ends formed into the eyes, and asecond frame of substantially triangular form pivotally supported in theeyes of the first mentioned frame and having its side members adapted toengage the crimps of the segments to hold the two frames in the requiredangular position.

3. In combination with a mirror or like part, clips having hooks attheir outer ends for engaging opposite edges of the mirror and providedwith offstanding ears and a frame comprising side members having theirend portions bent laterally to provide journals which terminate in eyes,the latter engaging the ears of the clips and the journals engaging thesaid clips, said frame serving to hold the clips in position, and thefrictional engagement of the parts acting to hold the mirror in theangular adjusted position.

In testimony whereof I afliX my signature in presence of two witnesses.

LAWRENCE A. MILLER.

WVit-nesses LENORE E. OSTEN, H. B. ANDERSON.

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